A women sits by a hospital bed holding the hand of an old man with a heart monitor beeping softly, he looks contently at the young girl who has tears trickles down and off her chin. Her head shakes as she sniffles into her sleeve.
"don't cry Vixen…you need to be strong okay?" the old man wheeze's coughing painfully, his hand shakes as he places his free bony hand upon her own.
"in the closet there's a box…take it, that key around your neck" he whispers putting his hand on the locket and making it twinkle before coughing loudly then breathing deeply, Vixen's eyes widen as she places a hand on his chest.
"only use it when you're strong enough" his pale hands softly rest on the bed mattress and his eyelids shut closely, Vixen puts her head on his chest crying loudly.
"please, you can't leave me" the young girl snivels, standing in the flickering hospital lights she stares at the empty bed. Nurses rub her arms and look at her with great sympathy while whispering to one another.
"poor girl has no where to go and at such a young age" one chatters to another looking at her with sad eyes, Vixen opens the door and leaves to where she once lived to retrieve her things.
[years later]
Vixen had opened the box and was following a map locked up inside leading into the forest, birds chatter and animals bound in and out of tree's frantically.
A cave stands hollowed into the mountain with a visible door upon it, Vixen steadily steps closer unsure and stares at the door with perplexed eyes. Her knuckle touches the oak then her finger tips which slide to the key hole, staring at her key she puts it in snugly and twists. To her surprise the door slowly creaks open to a halt inside is nothing but darkness, stepping foot inside the door shuts consuming her into blindness.
Vixen stumbles about looking for anything before her hand touches something in the darkness, cold and wooden making her have to run her delicate hands around to figure out what it is to no success. Leaning right up against it her eyes squint then she jerks back when she hears the door where she had came from opening, in a panic she runs and hides behind a slot in the strange object as fast as possible.
"I'm sure I locked this door" a voice emotionlessly mutters as more foot steps enter, Vixen doesn't dare move from her spot in fear of being attacked. The foot steps halt until only one pair is heard phasing up and down the now visibly large cave, Vixen looks around then up at what seems like away to climb the statue like thing. Without hesitation she starts to scramble upwards and upwards it seemed to have no end, the voices still talking to each other. The steps lead out of the statue and across the middle in a spiral to the other side, taking her chances Vixen stares down at the tops of heads of the ninja below. Slowly her hands reach out and scramble slowly across with sweat sliding down her forehead as she gasps from almost slipping, her eyes widen and stare downwards; they hadn't noticed or heard her.
Shakily her hand grasps another pole from the statue but it snaps off and tumbles downwards thumping off everything on the way down, quickly Vixen flings her self across to the other side and smacks her back against the statue begging to all mercy they hadn't looked up quick enough. The group had seen her unfortunately and where now making a loud commotion, all eyes staring up where she had darted.
"there's someone spying on us!" one voice calmly yells making Vixen freeze up, frantically she climbs faster and further up the object until reaching the top where Vixen stops and looks around she was trapped.
"you don't look much like a spy, un" a voice states from across the room making Vixen dart her eyes, a blonde man with blue eyes and a black cloak with red clouds stares at her on a large bird. Vixen stares at him with large gulps and her heart in her throat, something is thrown at her making her dart right back against the cave wall where she becomes trapped.
"Deidara! Capture them and get down here!" a voice yells to him getting a nod in response, Vixen doesn't stay still and bolts across the statue to the edge where she halts and waves her arms until she steadies.
"no where to run now, un" Deidara smirks childishly only to gasp when Vixen jumps down the statue's front to the ground, the entire group stare at the ninja sliding right down the side of the figure quickly. Slowing down with the use of chakra to her feet she thumps down onto the cold ground then looks to the group then at the door, getting up from her squatted form she uses her legs and arms like a springing dog to pounce her way quickly towards the door.
A spider lands down on the ground making her skid and squat once again and look at it with her body weight leaning backwards, it creeps closer to her as she stares at it unsure about what to do. Something springs through her mind making her turn and run as fast as possible away from it, Vixen spins about and darts across the room dodging every single bomb dropped.
"this looks like mind sweeper" someone chuckles deviously watching the poor women run frantically then turn to them and run, their eyes widen to the bombs following and move at instinct. Vixen's foot leans against the figure then she pushes her self back, in a burst she springs right up the figure then kicks the statue to bounce across at the bird and Deidara. With a heavy kick Deidara flies off from the bird to the ground below while Vixen sits on it looking around unsure of where to go now as it drifts further away from anything.
"b-bitch, un" Deidara spits scrambling to get up from the fall, doing hand gestures he stares at the bird then at the Vixen.
"a stupid bitch, art is a bang, un" Deidara laughs as he says it the bird seems to bloat making Vixen widen her eyes as it explodes viciously, throwing her right at a wall when she attempts to jump from the explosion. Blood stricken Vixen opens her eyes to look at her bottom half still attached but in no condition to attempt another run, the attackers surrounding her and stare about to hit when a hand swings up.
"wait a second…" a familiar voice speaks making Vixen struggle more to look up to no effect, everything begins to black out until complete darkness only echoes her name.
"Vixen?" the voice questions rather alarmed Vixen even though out cold can feel her body slump out across the wall of the wave but nothing else.
Water being pulled from a basin and strung on cloth floods Vixen's ears as she opens her eyes slowly then looks around her, a man with a mask sits staring at her rather surprised to see her awake. Vixen stares for a moment before closing her eyes and attempting to prop her self up, wincing the man pushes her back down with a rather annoyed expression.
"sit still you'll reopen the wounds" he firmly states keeping a grip until she gives up and lies there as she's told, her eyes glance around the lit room with medicine around it.
"where am I…?" Vixen softly asks the strange man her eyes floating down to her arm with several stitches along a deep gash, then across her body which is bare except for her tank and belly top and shorts.
"we'll be the ones asking the questions" that familiar voice sounds creeping out from the darkness, Vixens eyes widen as she bursts up only to squeak and drop back down. The man rolls his eyes then looks to the pair now in the room.
"I did tell her not to move like that" he mutters shaking his head in an irritated manner.
"Vixen, how did you find this place?" the blue haired women questions with crossed arms, a man does the same trying to look angry but more or less confused.
"Uncle gave me a box before he passed away" Vixen utters still getting over the pain that had ran through her entire body, interest crosses all faces.
"he told me to open it when I was strong enough" the injured women slurs taking another attempt to sit up with a pillow behind her back this time.
"by the looks of things I don't think my opinion of strength was right" Vixen chuckles softly rubbing her fingers across the stitches hat seem to squirm a little making her smile.
"in the box was a map that lead me here, I didn't know what it lead to though" Vixen looks at the similar faces waiting for a reply as she shows she's done explaining.
"uncle passed away? How long ago was that" the blue haired women asks rather concerned about this new information.
"a couple years ago, he died peacefully though….I'm glad about that bit though I would of hated to see him in pain after all he did for me" Vixen pushes her eyes up to try block any emotion of crying that could of came through.
"who is she?" a man finally questions staring at how much his partner had done to keep her well kept until she woke up.
"my adopted cousin, Vixen…I doubt she---" the women begins only to be interrupted by Vixen.
"pfft like I could forget you, Konan" Vixen brightly smiles seeming rather cheerful to see someone from her family in such a long time, her eyes look to the man making her eyes widen.
"nooo….I recognise you now….Pein?! Omg I heard---" Vixen begins to mumble when Konan alarmingly grabs her mouth to shut her up quickly, her head shakes getting her cousin to be quiet but a cheeky sits upon her face when the hand is removed.
"are you guys a thing yet?" Vixen asks eagerly looking at their faces becoming redder and redder, Pein puts his arm around her waist with a smirk.
"yep, been like this for ages now" Pein says rather proud making Konan blush, Vixen's eyes soften as she smiles at them sweetly; something pops in Konan's mind again.
"if uncle died years back…who where you living with you're only about 18 now" Konan's eyebrow raises Vixen blinks then rubs her shoulder.
"on my own, but I wasn't that bad got my singing career off the ground" Vixen smiles taking Konan by surprise.
"singing? I'd like to see you do that" she laughs making Vixen mumble to her self but still smile sweetly.
"guess you'll be living here from now on" Konan mutters looking to Pein Vixen blinks looking at her perplexed.
"no…not really I have work to do, besides I'm nothing but a burden to anyone I'm near" Vixen's eyes look down to the bed sheets and at everything been put into fixing her wounds to prove her point.
"its not like you can go anywhere Vixen, besides you can come in useful for something" Konan starts walking away to leave the member to finish healing her, Vixen attempts to disagree only to find the door shut on her face.
"why do I always get into these situations?" Vixen grumbles putting her palm over her eyes then looking to the guy still healing her, his eyes interesting her.
"uhm, what's your name?" Vixen asks taking his attention away long enough to pull her arm away so he can't ignore her question.
"Kakuzu" the man grumbles getting her arm back, Vixen looks at her other arm yet to be fixed and starts to kiss the wounds. Kakuzu stares miffed at what she is doing.
The wounds begin healing to her kisses making his eyes widen a little, Vixen stops once every wound had been kissed the looks at Kakuzu again.
"heh sorry it's a strange thing I can do…" Vixen mumbles with a gentle smile that seems rather forced than relaxed upon her face, Kakuzu stands up and goes to leave.
"get some rest you'll need it to survive a day in this place" Kakuzu jokes opening the door to be grabbed by an albino man as the door shuts, Vixen stares in wonder until looking back down at her body.
After a nights rest Vixen is able to walk around the room, she attempts stretches only to start cursing when a bone cracks. Her room door opens and the blonde from before looks at her, Vixen stares back then at the bruise on his forehead rather alarmed.
"what happened to you Deidara?" Vixen limps over to see him ignoring his warning glares, she looks at the bruise closely.
"looks like someone hit you with something" Vixen puts a hand on his left cheek making his eyes widen then close, something soft touches his bruise making Deidara's eyes open slowly. Vixen shifts away and watches the bruise disappear swiftly, she walks away back to the bed and perches onto it. The blonde bomber puts his hand onto the bruise and blinks, Vixen smiles chirpily to her self watching the blonde.
"I'm guessing this is your room then…" vixen looks about then jumps back when an orange mask appears right beside her.
"ahhh..ohhhh hello" Vixen begins rubbing its head when it rubs its head against her arm.
"what is this thing? Your pet?" Vixen blinks looking at the rather amused Deidara then back at the 'pet'.
"that's Tobi, he's my partner on missions…sadly un" Deidara mutters staring in disbelief as Vixen starts rubbing Tobi's belly with a large smile.
"Tobi is a good boy" Tobi happily mutters making Vixen smile wider, Deidara puts his hand on his face then looks at them.
"Tobi is a person not a dog, Vixen un" Deidara shakes his head perching on the end of the bed as well, Vixen looks up at shelves filled with odd bird like thing.
"did you make them?" Vixen asks looking at Deidara whom becomes blushed, Vixen leans into him trying to push Tobi's over enthusiastic head rubbing away.
"do you like them, yeah?" Deidara questions looking at the women leaning right into him this time, her warmth creeping up his body in waves.
"they're cute, wish my art was as good as that" Vixen sighs looking at the clay with dreamed eyes, Deidara blushes further.
"no ones ever said that about my art, un" the blonde sighs making Vixen's eyes widen then look at Deidara with surprised horror.
"those who don't know art can't truly appreciate it" Vixen smiles giving the rather down blonde then tickling his side to make him laugh.
"sorry about shoving you off your bird, a sparrow was it?" Vixen asks remembering the bird he blew up with her still on it, Deidara had forgotten about that until now and looks at her wounds.
"yeah it was a sparrow, that explosion really messed you up. Un" Deidara ushers putting a hand on the stitches and rubbing them.
Vixen's eyes lighten when something wet starts licking her arm where his hand in.
"omg what is that, it tickles" Vixen giggles trying to see what it is, Deidara alertly hides his hands only to find Vixen pulling at him. Vixen stares at the mouths on his hands silently, before her eyes widen in awe.
"whoa…..that's so cool…" Vixen blurts laughing when the mouth's tongue bursts out and licks her face, Deidara stares at the women without an ounce of fear about it.
"I feel sorry for them when you need to wash your hair or put gloves on" Vixen chirps rubbing her pinkie softly across the rim of the mouth's lip.
"have you got anything strange?" Tobi randomly asks looking at her for anything strange, Vixen thinks about it then stands up.
"I've never shown this to anyone" Vixen starts pulling her top up to show a large burn scar going up her stomach, Deidara's blue eyes widen at it then Vixen turns to show her back. A large scar runs right up her spine from tail bone to shoulder blade, both members are silent for a moment.
"how did…." Deidara asks watching her sit back down beside them and look back at his hand mouths again.
"people can be cruel" Vixen begins with a rather sad tone but happy enough expression, again seeming forced to show.
"c-can I…" Deidara asks putting his hand closer, Vixen raises her shirt as he runs his hands across the scars with disgust lightly on his face. Vixen twinges when his hand tongues start licking her back and stomach, a real smile finally bursts out cheerily.
Unsure of what to do Deidara gives her a cuddle forgetting that his hands where still around her under the shirt, Vixen leans into him as Tobi launches onto them and cuddles the back of Vixen.